I am the Director of the ICRD (https://www.wlv.ac.uk/research/institutes-and-centres/icrd/) research centre here at the University of Wolverhampton. 

Most recently working with Drs Karlie Stonard and John McDaniel on a pilot study exploring the challenges faced by service providers engaging with deaf victims of domestic violence. We have recently been awarded an AHRC catalyst grant (PI Dr Karlie Stonard, CI Dr John McDaniel and myself) - SmartSafeSigning: Deaf Inclusion in Domestic Violence and Abuse Support and the Criminal Justice System.

I continue to explore the work of Deaf and nonDeaf interpreters on television, and the broader work of Deaf interpreters and translators. I have recently been awarded a grant via the Open Research Area 8 call (SSHRC, ANR, DFG, ESRC) to explore this work further with Prof Jérémie Segouat, Universitê de Toulouse Jean Jaurès, and Prof Christian Rathmann Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Deaf access by Deaf people - Deaf mediators, interpreters and translators (DMIT).

Currently, my teaching is principally within the MA Interpreting (https://www.wlv.ac.uk/courses/ma-interpreting/), I also supervise or advise 7 PhD students (5 UK-based and 2 Belgium-based).

I am a co-investigator in the DEPICT project 2021-2025 looking at depiction (https://www.hvl.no/en/research/prosjekt/depict/) having studied Deaf/nondeaf interpreting teams in international conference settings with Dr. Debra Russell examining team strategies and use of depiction. And the use of depiction within television broadcast interpreting of weather forecasts by deaf and hearing ‘in-vision’ interpreters.

I was a co-investigator of a British Academy grant 2019 - 2022 looking at cognitive and linguistic predictors of British Sign Language learning. This follows on from my first postdoctoral research post, which was based at the Deafness Cognition and Language (DCAL) Research Centre, University College, London, undertaking a longitudinal study examining predictors for sign language learning and sign language interpreter aptitude.

I continue to explore the work of deaf and hearing interpreters on television ‘in-vision’. I have explored (with Drs. Robert Adam and Breda Carty) Deaf people working as translators and interpreters within the Deaf community and at the institutional interface. I earned my PhD from the University of Bristol (2006) where I researched Deaf translators working within television news rendering English into British Sign Language, which resulted in the publication of Towards a Deaf Translation Norm (Gallaudet University Press 2009).

I previously received a Spencer Foundation grant with my colleague Dr Gene Mirus for the project "The Development of Deaf Legal Discourse", which examines the use of ASL by Deaf lawyers.